A Toronto police officer convicted of assaulting a protester during the G20 summit has been sentenced to 45 days in prison.
Const. Babak Andalib-Goortani was convicted in September of assault
with a weapon for using excessive force during the arrest of protester
Adam Nobody on June 26, 2010.
The Crown had called for a “short, sharp sentence of imprisonment” to
send a message that those who abuse their positions of public trust and
authority “will be dealt with severely.”
Andalib-Goortani’s lawyer, Harry Black, had asked for the officer to receive an absolute discharge.
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G20 officers should be charged in Nobody arrest, police watchdog says
Five Toronto police officers should be charged with using unnecessary force against protester Adam Nobody during the G20 summit 19 months ago, an independent police review says.
The 174-page report by the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD) is based on interviews with a dozen police witnesses, the five officers involved, five civilian witnesses and Nobody himself.
The allegation that Constables Michael Adams, Babak Andalib-Goortani, Geoffrey Fardell, David Donaldson and Oliver Simpson used unnecessary force “is substantiated and is of a serious nature,” the report says.
Nobody suffered a broken right cheekbone and broken nose in the takedown on June 26, 2010.
A second look at G20 police assault
Rosie Dimanno
I see you, Mr. Policeman.
I see your mustachioed face, the visor so helpfully lifted up.
I see your arm — in short-sleeve uniform shirt — pumping back and forth, brutally beating.
I see the baton in that hand.
And do you, Police Chief Bill Blair, recognize this cop? Was he one of yours, pounding on Adam Nobody that awful day, June 26, 2010, when peaceful G20 protesters were assaulted by some law enforcement thugs at Queen’s Park?
If so, what do you intend to do about it now, sir?
The Toronto Star has come into possession of a new piece of videotape shot by a bystander that afternoon. It is 12 minutes and 20 seconds long — 23 seconds of which capture a vicious cop pile-on, officers pounding on Nobody, a stage designer who changed his name two years ago from Adam Trombetta for the pun value.
Follow the link. There is new video of the assault on Adam Nobody. Tom
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